Grecians' Club Dances: An Ordeal or a Pleasure?

Bingo the Poop-Eating Dog · Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:47 am

I only went to one Grecians' Club Dance and it was a ****ing nightmare. There were way more blokes than there were girls (imported from two minor girls' public schools for the evening), which meant the girls all plumped for the chiselled-jawed School Monitor types and the rest of us got spurned. Oh, the agony. Oh, the ineradicable psychological scarring. Oh, the misery of plucking up the courage to ask an iffy-looking bird if she'd like a drink, only to be told No, thanks.

I'm guessing that Grecians' Club Dances no longer exist now that CH is mixed - or else exist in a cosy CH-only form. Probably the best thing possible. (Me, I still go for treatment. How about you?)

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:36 am

They haven't exisited for years - I certainly don't remember them...

it's all school discos now...

Although, on my UF and before, some boys used to be shipped over to Farlington (an all girls school) for their dances...

graham · Post by **graham** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:34 pm

On my UF through to my Deps it was still common practice to invite girls in from local girls' schools when house dance time came around. In ThA they were lovingly referred to as the "**** truck" (insert rhyming word as appropriate)

This was fairly problematic for me, coming from Crawley area. on my UF I started trying to chat up a girl by pretending I was 18. She seemed rather insistant that I wasn't and finally revealed that she was an old friend's sister who I hadn't seen for about 8 yrs. Needless to say, I didn't get any!!

sport! · Post by **sport!** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:57 pm

Cattle Markets as we affectionately called them............loved 'em

PeA7 · Post by **PeA7** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:20 pm

A group of us grecians got sent to a local girl's school (can't remember the name of it offhand) for some valentine's day dance. We were amongst four other school's, but they were all single sex male school's and it appeared that none of them had ever seen a girl before!
Needless to say it was most definately game on for us CH lot!
(All apart from one chap who was picked up by the police in a ditch as he'd tried to walk back to CH as he thought he'd missed the minibus even though it hadn't actually left. He had had rather a lot of vodka though, and his dinner suit was ruined!)

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:54 am

PeA7 wrote: (All apart from one chap who was picked up by the police in a ditch as he'd tried to walk back to CH as he thought he'd missed the minibus even though it hadn't actually left. He had had rather a lot of vodka though, and his dinner suit was ruined!)

Good to hear that the old traditions are being kept up...!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:26 am

PeA7 wrote:A group of us grecians got sent to a local girl's school (can't remember the name of it offhand) for some valentine's day dance. We were amongst four other school's, but they were all single sex male school's and it appeared that none of them had ever seen a girl before!
Needless to say it was most definately game on for us CH lot!
(All apart from one chap who was picked up by the police in a ditch as he'd tried to walk back to CH as he thought he'd missed the minibus even though it hadn't actually left. He had had rather a lot of vodka though, and his dinner suit was ruined!)

That'll be Farlington and the person involved will be Alex King...

superseven · Post by **superseven** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:39 am

thanks guys. glad to know i'm remembered for all the good stuff!!!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:08 am

I guess that you are Alex then Superseven...

superseven · Post by **superseven** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:26 am

very perceptive. good to see i can still get grassed 8 years on and on the other side of the world!!!!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:34 am

Sorry, you did acheive legendary status after that...

Fertii · Post by **Fertii** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:37 am

Club dances before I was a member and house dances always proved profitable......